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Smart Teams Program

Smart Teams, based on the book Smart Teams, is a series of large group masterclasses designed to create healthier communication, meeting and prioritisation cultures that allow productivity to flourish. But it is more than just a presentation, it is a project that we will build with you to ensure a long-term shift in culture for your wider team.

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Smart Teams Program in action

Imagine working in a team culture where everyone worked together with minimal communication noise, balanced meeting workloads and a focus on importance rather than urgency.

We all want to do our best work, but often the productivity cultures we work within get in the way and stop us from being our most productive selves.

The constant deluge of email and communications, the never ending series of meetings we are expected to attend, and the pressure of constant urgency all serve to distract us from our most important priorities.

The good news is that culture is just a set of group behaviors, and behaviors can be changed.

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Create healthier team cultures

Smart Teams is made up of three large-group masterclasses designed to help everyone in your organisation or division to shift their behaviors and shift the culture.

The masterclasses can be run as a series, or you can choose the productivity culture you want your team to focus on.

Each masterclass explores a productivity culture – Communication, Meeting culture or Prioritisation culture.

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Who is the program for?

Smart Teams is ideally suited to organisations, divisions or large teams who want to create healthier productivity cultures, and are keen to either reduce communication noise, reduce time in ineffective meetings or reduce unnecessary urgency.

These masterclasses are a great next step for teams that have undertaken the Smart Work or Lead Smart programs, but these are not a pre-requisite.

The Smart Teams approach

Cultural change is never easy, especially in large, complex teams. But when it comes to sustained productivity and performance, it is essential. Culture is just a set of group behaviours and beliefs, and if not intentionally crafted, the culture can take on a life of its own, causing a massive amount of disruption to everyone’s productivity.

Your team’s communication culture, meeting culture and prioritisation culture may be causing too much distraction, busyness and reactivity. These productivity blockers serve to disrupt personal productivity and reduce the capacity of your team. 

The Smart Teams Masterclass series turns:

  • Distraction into focus – Communication Culture
  • Busyness into impact – Meeting Culture
  • Reactivity into proactivity – Prioritisation Culture

Each masterclass is designed in three stages to maximise the impact of the event itself, and to fully equip your team to create a meaningful cultural change.

Masterclass

Communication Culture

When your teams’ communication culture is unhealthy, people struggle with the volume of noise coming into their Inboxes every day. This masterclass will help your team to not only reduce the volume of noise, but also increase the quality of communications.

  • Reduce the volume of unnecessary email and MS Teams communications
  • Increase the quality of communications and make it easy for the recipient
  • Adopt a set of communication team agreements that will shift your culture

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Meeting Culture

Too much time in too many meetings creates an imbalance in your teams schedules, and an unhealthy meeting culture. This masterclass will help your team to reduce the time they spend in meetings, as well as increase the quality of the meetings they do attend.

  • Create a new meeting mindset for fewer, shorter and more impactful meetings
  • Ensure you have participants, not spectators, in your meetings
  • Create a set of meeting agreements that will increase team productivity

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Prioritisation Culture

If everything your team has to deal with is urgent, it may be a sign that you have an unhealthy prioritisation culture, which distracts people from the things that truly matter. We cannot ignore urgent work, but we can minimise the amount of unnecessary urgency by creating a culture that prioritises using important as well as urgency.

  • Reduce unnecessary urgency across your team
  • Learn to negotiate urgency and workload priorities
  • Shift the focus to importance with a set of bespoke team agreements

Don’t just take our word for it

The tools we have gained from your course have got me well and truly out of that ‘hurry sickness’ cycle of reactivity. So not only has your course made me more productive, but it might just stop me dropping dead from a stress related heart attack too.

James Redgrove, General Manager - Safety Systems, Dreamworld

Dermot has guided our team through ‘Smart Work’ and ‘Smart Teams’ for over two years, with his knowledge and personal work practices flowing into his books and training, delivering transformational results. Team members now experience greater control and ease, and we have adopted a shared ‘productivity’ language and culture. In ‘Urgent!’ he provides a practical guide to recognise unhelpful reactivity, understand the harms of unfettered urgency, and create a balanced, responsive culture where important work gets done, creativity and growth thrive, and our requests reflect the values we uphold.

Lesley McKay, General Manager Tasmania, The Smith Family

While we all aspire individually to work smarter, it is not until you shift an entire team to achieve this that you realise the true scale and benefits. Smart Teams is an excellent reference for leaders and individuals alike. Allowing you to not only develop good habits, but more importantly create a team culture of productivity and efficiency.

Paul Gracey, Director - Printing Systems, HP

Dermot has guided our team through ‘Smart Work’ and ‘Smart Teams’ for over two years, with his knowledge and personal work practices flowing into his books and training, delivering transformational results.

Team members now experience greater control and ease, and we have adopted a shared ‘productivity’ language and culture.

In ‘Urgent!’ he provides a practical guide to recognise unhelpful reactivity, understand the harms of unfettered urgency, and create a balanced, responsive culture where important work gets done, creativity and growth thrive, and our requests reflect the values we uphold.

Lesley McKay, General Manager Tasmania, The Smith Family

The tools we have gained from your course have got me well and truly out of that ‘hurry sickness’ cycle of reactivity. So not only has your course made me more productive, but it might just stop me dropping dead from a stress related heart attack too.

James Redgrove, General Manager – Safety Systems, Dreamworld
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Smart Teams program overview

The Smart Teams masterclass series reduces the productivity friction that your team experiences as they go about their work. Each masterclass focuses on a different productivity culture, and will achieve the following outcomes.

Outcomes

  • Communication Culture: Enhance how your team use email and other tools to communicate and manage workflow
  • Meeting Culture: Improve how your team manage all aspects of meetings and reduce time in unnecessary meetings
  • Prioritisation Culture: Prioritisation Culture Masterclass will transform how your team prioritise their work and manage unnecessary urgency

Our program pricing varies depending on a range of factors including session length and group size.
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Smart Teams Masterclass

Duration: 2 hours

Class size: Flexible

Any of the three Smart Teams masterclasses can be run as a standalone masterclass for your team. This is a perfect masterclass for your next team offsite or conference, or can be run a webinar for your team, division or even organisation. We usually run this for larger groups as to shift culture you need to get as many of your team across the new behaviours and strategies as possible.

The team productivity strategies covered are a great compliment to the personal productivity strategies covered in Smart Work, but are not dependant on participants having attended Smart Work training.

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Smart Teams Culture Projects

Duration: 2 hour Masterclass, plus additional meetings

Class size: Flexible

If your team or organisation is keen to create a truly transformative shift in productivity culture, then building a culture shift project around one of the three Smart Teams masterclasses is a great way forward.

In this program, we work with an internal team of champions to create a set of bespoke team agreements before running the masterclass for your wider team. We then follow that up with a group mentoring session for the champions to help them to create a 3-month project that will embed the agreed behaviours across the team, and increase the chances of sustained cultural change.

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FAQs

Is Smart Teams a personal productivity program for teams?

Smart Teams is different to our Smart Work personal productivity program, as it focuses less on how you organise your own work, and more on how you work with others in a way that reduces productivity friction, and creates a healthy productivity culture.

Can I run a Smart Teams masterclass with a smaller team?

The masterclass series can be run for smaller teams, but it lends itself more to larger teams, divisions or even your entire organisation.

What support do we get to help embed the Smart Teams strategies and cultural changes?

While the main delivery for Adapt is the masterclass itself, we have designed a journey for you to ensure a shift in culture over time. We will brief a small team of internal champions that you have picked to support the project. We can also deliver a short presentation to your leadership team to engage them and understand their role in creating the shift. We will assist you to create a set of bespoke team agreements, and we will give you direction in embedding the changes across the wider team.